How to Use information theory in a Sentence

information theory

noun

• And just as with the information theory analysis, there is no trace of a gap.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2023
• The ideas that emerged are the basis of an entire field of study today called information theory.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• While its delightful mix of luck and intuition is part of the game’s appeal, so too is its tie-in to information theory.
  — Pradeep Mutalik, Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2022
• Here’s a game Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented in 1948.
  — Jordan Ellenberg, Scientific American, 11 June 2021
• Entropy is a big concept in information theory and black holes, as well as in biology.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• This amounts to giving an extra clue about the word even before the game starts, making the puzzle easier and detracting from its rich information theory connection.
  — Pradeep Mutalik, Quanta Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
• Doyle teamed up with a group of scientists researching whale communications and brought information theory to the mix in order to get a better idea of the complexity of whale songs, searching for rules and patterns.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
• The effort to pinpoint that deep idea has turned up surprising connections to black holes, gravity and quantum information theory.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2018
• The first was by the American mathematician Claude Shannon, regarded as the founder of information theory.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
• In the first part of this century, economist George Gilder has drawn on the mathematical models known as information theory to explain how the entrepreneur solves problems that lead to better use of our resources.
  — Peter Crabb, idahostatesman, 25 May 2018
• Robert Gallager had written the textbook on information theory.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
• Today’s Bell Labs, however, is very different than the Bell Labs where information theory was invented.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2016
• Through Berkeley, the Sutherland brothers were introduced to Claude Shannon, renowned for his development of information theory.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
• There are also formal similarities in the way that entropy is calculated in both physics and information theory.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
• Within that intellectual utopia, Bell Labs’ Claude Shannon, best known for establishing the field of information theory, did some of the earliest research in machine learning.
  — Amy Feldman, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
• Finally, this work may lead to new connections between the study of heat (thermodynamics) and the study of communication (information theory).
  — Joshua R. Smith, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2023
• Last year, Strominger struck up a collaboration with Cotler, who splits his time between quantum gravity research and quantum information theory — the study of information stored in quantum states.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
• Initially a way to think about heat and the dissipation of energy that makes perpetual motion machines impossible, entropy has evolved to take a central place in information theory.
  — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2023
• Roman Stanisław Ingarden publishes one of the first attempts at creating a quantum information theory.
  — Gil Press, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• Bell states, named after John Stewart Bell, a pioneer of quantum information theory, are the conditions in which particles are maximally entangled.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
• Seth has also studied integrated information theory, which associates consciousness not with the brain’s function but with its complex networked structure.
  — George Musser, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
• Mark Pearson discussed the similarity of this problem to error-correcting codes and suggested using an information theory approach based on the number of possible outcomes.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022
• The sharpest exchanges came between Koch and Berlin, who argued that integrated information theory is deeply limited because many aspects of behavior are influenced by things that happen outside of conscious experience.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2013
• Vopson, who studies information theory at University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, wants to use an experiment to confirm that elementary particles have measurable mass.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2022
• Some are short quotes from books on computer science, information theory, encryption, and cinematography.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
• Quantum computers, for instance, are systems where both quantum information theory and thermodynamics are key.
  — Nicole Yunger Halpern, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2020
• Complex molecules are naturally information-rich, in the truest most objective sense given by information theory and Shannon’s entropy.
  — Caleb A. Scharf, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2020
• Mathematician Claude Shannon, founder of information theory, recognized this and defined a measure of information content with this relationship in mind.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
• Deutsch’s new theory provided a crucial link between quantum mechanics and information theory.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2022
• But recent developments in nonequilibrium physics, complex systems science and information theory are challenging that view.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2017

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